In deference to the legion of clients who left their guts on the floor of my therapy office, I have dedicated this website to the other ways people get better -- through education, collegial relationships, knowing glances, exquisite questions, risk taking, resonance with strangers, challenge of familiars, and all that goes with political views that are just a little left of John Lennon.

Poke around the website. Here's what I have planned.

A resource page for articles, documents, book lists, slides, and links requested by students, educators, colleagues, clients, and friends

A blog for your comments and questions

A link to my space on Second Life, where we can meet for livelier discussions

Links to Facebook, Twitter, and wherever else we can find each other.

I believe in the power of the unfold, so I suspect that what I do not have planned will be even richer. If you are reading this, it already is. - Nicki

If you are a counseling student interested in testing the effectiveness of learning counseling techniques in the virtual world, or, if you are an educator interested in learning how to use the technology, send me an email and I'll include you in the planning for whatever emerges.

Teaching on SL is a lot like teaching in the classroom. Facilitating a group in Second Life is actually a little better than Real Life in some ways. It's hard for the avatars to interrupt each other, and the settings for group work are endless. A few counselors actually conduct therapy hours on SL, and though I have no interest in doing that in the virtual or real world, I would like to know more about how they handle the nuts and bolts of counseling.

I hope some of you will join me in this fun (and sometimes creepy) virtual world.